Alcohol Quotes - Page 21

• We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

  David Lloyd George

  Fighting, Germany, Three

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• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

  Robert Burns

  Stupid, Drinking, Food

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• Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

  Truman Capote

  Champagne Drinking, Doe, Settling

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• Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Order, Clothes

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• There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

  Edward Lear

  Beer, Men, Hot

  Edward Lear (1862). “A Book of Nonsense”, p.25

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• I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beer, Champagne

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

  Winston Churchill

  Hate, Beer, People

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Vineyards, Beverages

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Morning, Food

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

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• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Song, Food

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• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  Walker Percy

  Cake, Pieces, Doe

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

  Bernard DeVoto

  Food, Past, Men

  Bernard DeVoto (2010). “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto”, p.11, Tin House Books

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• There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

  Edward Lear

  People, Towns, Brandy

  Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

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• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

  George Saintsbury

  Soul, Body, Drink

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Tired, Wine, Feel Better

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• An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Wine, Odes

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• Alcoholism is the disease of more.

  Caroline Knapp

  Disease, Alcoholism

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.57, Dial Press

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• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

  Robert E. Lee

  Civil War, Moral, Moderation

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Drug

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• Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

  Michael Josephson

  Humor, Eye, Practice

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Drug, Hiv

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Kings, Humble, Humor

  The New Statesman 'London Diary' 3 August (1962)

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• If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

  John Van de Kamp

  Humor, Past, Parent

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